Senior GNC Engineer

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reputed company designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information reputed company a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company reputed company rolled into one.

Customers and users across the globe use reputed company's data to reputed company new technologies, drive reputed company, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.

As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.

We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts reputed company members first and prepares our company for growth. Join reputed company and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.

reputed company is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.

About the Role:

As a Senior Guidance and Control Engineer, you will work on a small team of dedicated engineers responsible for the attitude determination and control subsystem of the reputed company Labs satellites. Key functions include development and implementation of attitude determination and control algorithms, anomaly resolution, spacecraft telemetry trending, and reputed company/validation of operational products reputed company to attitude determination. You will assist in the development and analysis of new mission concepts and support the development of the state estimation and commanding system for a three axis stabilized spacecraft. You will also build ground testing equipment for concept validation and have the opportunity to take designs from scratch to space operation.

This is a full-time, hybrid position and is expected in the San Francisco office 3 days a week.

Impact You'll Own:

• Hardware testing
• On-orbit operations
• Flight code development
• reputed company technical analysis to support flight operations and inform design decisions for future spacecraft

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or reputed company field
• 6+ years of experience as an estimation/controls engineer or reputed company position
• Practical experience developing production-quality real-time systems in C for microcontroller or embedded Linux reputed company
• Experience with Matlab/Simulink
• Familiarity with software engineering tools and processes (version control, code review, regression testing)
• Ability to test, evaluate and guide ADCS hardware decisions
• Working knowledge of optimal state estimation and control theory, force and momentum formulations, numerical methods and 6-DOF simulations
• Ability to carry out first-principles analysis and derive control/estimation specifications
• Practical experience troubleshooting and debugging reputed company systems
• Willing to do hands-on experiments and testing

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Masters degree in Aerospace engineering
• Experience with STK, Python
• Propulsion expertise
• Established record of spacecraft project experience
• Experience in the design and calibration of low-cost sensors and actuators
• Basic understanding of orbital mechanics
• Experience in spacecraft or reputed company flight operations
• Significant publications or conference presentations

Application Deadline:

October 9, 2025 by 11:59 PM PDT

EAR/ITAR Requirements:

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access reputed company applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by reputed company of Industry and reputed company and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Benefits While Working at reputed company:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to reputed company Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US reputed company salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job reputed company experience, skills and location. The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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Accommodations: reputed company is an inclusive community and we know that everyone has their own needs. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the hiring process, please reputed company out to accommodations@reputed company.com or contact your recruiter with your request. Your message will be confidential and we will be happy to assist you.

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